Abstract
In our age the concept of intellectual liberty is under attack from two directions. On one side from its theoretical enemies: the apologists of totalitarianism. On the other side from its immediate practical enemies: monopoly and bureaucracy.
What did he fear?
The committal of homicide or suicide during sleep by an aberration of the light of reason, the incommensurable categorical intelligence in the cerebral convolutions.
James Joyce
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Justus Buehler, Toward a General Theory of Human Judgment. New York, 1951, p. 1.
Encounter,Vol. XLIV, No. 6, p. 90. Leszek Kolakowski was dismissed from his Chair of Philosophy at Warsaw University in 1968 during a wave of cultural and academic repression. He is now a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His Marxism and Beyond was published by Pall Mall Press in 1969 and The Devil and Scripture by Oxford University Press in 1973.
The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell. Penguin Books, Vol. IV, especially pp. 118 ff. and 129 ff.
Rousseau, Du contrat social ou droit politique,1762, Liv. III, ch. 5.
Encounter,Vol. XLIV, No. 5, p. 37.
The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell. p. 90.
Radoslav Selucky, ‘The Dubcek Era Revisited,’ Problems of Communism,Jan-Feb. 1975, p. 41.
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Melai, A.L. (1976). Intellectual Liberty and Totalitarianism. In: Criminology Between the Rule of Law and the Outlaws. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-4988-6_2
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